The days after Trump and Brexit
Redefining administration of our societies
by Mike Meyer
It’s time to get back to our future. There is no future in the past. And past failures offer nothing at all. While we need to deal with the hysteria and delusions of the left behind people and their failing leaders, they are left behind because they have been lied to for years and just need to realize it, the future is on us and evolving fast.
One of the reasons things have become so confused is because our analogies of time are too simple. We have a series of deep cultural images of time dating back to the first day our high school history teacher drew a long line on the blackboard. Later the board became white but the line remained the same. Tick marks indicated the important dates. And the future was off the right edge. Where did it go?
Accelerating paradigmatic change is rewriting the rules of communication, media, human agency, society, and time. All this happens around us and drags us along. We are not in charge. Life really is but a stage and we are now standing in a darkened theater while scenery disappears and is replaced around us. The old scenery was creative and ingenious with direct human skill but the new sets are being increasingly designed and installed by our intelligent tools.
